Eric James Booker (born June 21, 1969), known professionally as Badlands Booker or BadlandsChugs, is an American competitive eater, rapper and YouTube personality. He holds seven Major League Eating recognized world records, three Guinness World Records, is a two-time Nathan's Lemonade Chugging Contest champion, and competed in the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest every year from 1997 to 2018. Biography By 20, Booker began training his chug skills and training to compete in food championships. Booker lives on Long Island. He is married to Regina Booker. Booker is 6 ft in (1.96 m) tall and weighs . Competitive eating career Booker trains for competitions by trying to stretch his stomach and develop jaw strength. He eats large amounts of fruit and vegetables and drinks a gallon of water in a sitting in order to stretch his stomach and chews over twenty pieces of gum at a time to build jaw strength. He maintains that competitive eating is a healthy sport and has lost weight since he began competing. As of 2022, he is ranked 27th by the IFOCE. Booker is also known for his YouTube channel, BadlandsChugs, in which he primarily performs soda chugging challenges. In 2019, over the span of a year, his YouTube channel amassed over 3 million subscribers. At the 2021 Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest, Booker won a lemonade drinking contest, drinking a gallon of lemonade in under 40 seconds. He captured his second lemonade chugging contest title in 2022. Accomplishments Some of Booker's accomplishments include: Burritos: 15 Qdoba burritos/ 8 minutes Candy bars: Two Pounds Chocolate Candy Bars / 6 minutes Cannoli: 16.5 cannoli in six minutes / 2004 Corned Beef Hash: 4 pounds of hash / 1 minute 58 seconds Cheesecake (Mini): 50 Mini-Cheesecakes / 6 minutes Doughnuts: 49 glazed doughnuts / 8 minutes Hamentaschen: 50 Hamentaschen / 6 minutes Matzo Ball (Ben's Deli): 21 baseball-sized (half-pound) matzo balls / 5 minutes, 25 seconds / 2003 Matzo Balls (Ruthie & Gussie's): 30 matzo balls / 5 minutes, 25 seconds Raw Onions: 8.5 ounces Maui Onions (three onions)/ Whalers Village / 1 minute/ August 8, 2004 Peas: 9.5 one-pound bowls / 12 minutes Pumpkin pies: Entenmann's Pumpkin Pies / 12 Minutes/ November 22, 2004 Lemonade: Inaugural Nathan's Famous chug contest / 1 gallon lemonade / 37 seconds / July 4, 2021 In May 2021, he set the Guinness World Record for the fastest time to